The Maldives set an example of sustainable seafood value chains

Fish is one of the most traded food commodities, and global consumption of fish and seafood has more than doubled since 1973. Over the same ...

Research on tiger shrimp immunostimulant wins top prize

The Phillipines.- A SEAFDEC/AQD scientific paper is a recent recipient of the Dr. Elvira O. Tan Award for 2018. The paper titled “A probiotic Bacillus ...

Biotoxin Research Targets Improved Seafood Safety

USA.- In the summer of 2016, the Department of Marine Resources closed a fishery in the Gulf of Maine and recalled shellfish across the state ...

Dark Data Sheds Light on Shellfish Parasites

USA.- Take a drive along Maine’s State Route 129, and as you wind along the Damariscotta River estuary, you will pass lobster boats, agricultural fields ...

UNE enters into global partnership agreement with The Nature Conservancy

Biddeford, USA.- Students at the University of New England will have the opportunity to work on aquaculture research on a global level, thanks to a ...

UAPB Research Could Improve the Commercial Production of Largemouth Bass

USA.- Nathan Egnew, a graduate student of aquaculture/fisheries at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, is researching the physiological response of largemouth bass to ...

Aqua- and Mariculture for Future Food and Biomass Production

Germany.- New concepts of sustainable aquaculture that dissolve the borders between land and ocean. The conference “Revolution in Food and Biomass Production (REFAB)”, Cologne, 1-2 ...

Shortcomings in CITES caviar labelling system poses a risk to sturgeons

Geneva.— Twenty years after trade in sturgeons was regulated, illegal trade in sturgeon caviar continues and threatens the survival of this endangered group of species ...

From fish to dish – securing a sustainable future for the fisheries sector

Exclusive interview with Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Seafood, including fish, is one of the most traded food ...

Friendlier fish may be quicker to take the bait

Urbana, USA.- The bluegill on your dinner plate might have been more social than the rest of its group, according to a new study from ...